LAN Job Trends in Edinburgh

Local Area Network (LAN)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring LAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 71 69
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +35
Permanent jobs citing LAN 1 4 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.095% 0.48% 1.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.33% 6.67% 12.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 15
10th Percentile - £42,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £43,438 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £46,250 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% +32.14% -9.09%
75th Percentile £58,750 £48,438 £55,000
90th Percentile - £48,625 -
Scotland median annual salary £50,500 £36,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year +40.28% -7.69% -6.02%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

LAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 75 60 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.09% 7.23% 11.74%
Number of salaries quoted 42 37 115
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,625 £33,000
25th Percentile £29,188 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £51,914 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.02% -13.48% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £92,500 £67,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £96,500 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £43,500 £30,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +45.00% -40.00% -

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing LAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

LAN job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

LAN
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing LAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing LAN

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft